Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis
The shift to sustainable transportation presents challenges regarding the acquisition or replacement of bus fleets. The need to consider multiple, conflicting and incommensurate factors such as environmental impact, cost-effectiveness, and technological issues makes the decision-making process more...
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| author | Jônatas Augusto Manzolli Pascal Messier João Pedro F. Trovão Carlos Henggeler Antunes |
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| description | The shift to sustainable transportation presents challenges regarding the acquisition or replacement of bus fleets. The need to consider multiple, conflicting and incommensurate factors such as environmental impact, cost-effectiveness, and technological issues makes the decision-making process more complex, time-consuming, and possibly ineffective, thus requiring an adequate multi-criteria evaluation framework. To this end, this study employs the stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis method, assessing the feasibility of transitioning to eco-friendly bus fleets by comparing diesel, hybrid, and electric buses while addressing uncertainty. Using the bus transportation system of Sherbrooke (Canada) as a case study, computational simulations generate energy consumption data and define bus system configurations. The case study evaluates five concrete alternatives over twelve criteria. The results show that an electric bus system with an overnight charging strategy outperforms other options (in 32 % of the cases) due to its reliability, cost-effectiveness, and mixed use of the bus fleet. Conversely, the diesel bus alternative consistently ranks lowest due to poor performance on economic and environmental criteria. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d65b39d22a642f2b92038ec908ddd1b2025-08-20T03:31:20ZengElsevierSustainable Futures2666-18882025-06-01910065310.1016/j.sftr.2025.100653Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysisJônatas Augusto Manzolli0Pascal Messier1João Pedro F. Trovão2Carlos Henggeler Antunes3INESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, DEEC, Polo II, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal; Corresponding author: University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra PORTUGAL.University of Sherbrooke, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, CanadaINESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, DEEC, Polo II, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal; University of Sherbrooke, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada; Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, IPC-ISEC, DEE, 3030-199 Coimbra, PortugalINESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, DEEC, Polo II, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal; University of Coimbra, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polo II, 3030-290 Coimbra, PortugalThe shift to sustainable transportation presents challenges regarding the acquisition or replacement of bus fleets. The need to consider multiple, conflicting and incommensurate factors such as environmental impact, cost-effectiveness, and technological issues makes the decision-making process more complex, time-consuming, and possibly ineffective, thus requiring an adequate multi-criteria evaluation framework. To this end, this study employs the stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis method, assessing the feasibility of transitioning to eco-friendly bus fleets by comparing diesel, hybrid, and electric buses while addressing uncertainty. Using the bus transportation system of Sherbrooke (Canada) as a case study, computational simulations generate energy consumption data and define bus system configurations. The case study evaluates five concrete alternatives over twelve criteria. The results show that an electric bus system with an overnight charging strategy outperforms other options (in 32 % of the cases) due to its reliability, cost-effectiveness, and mixed use of the bus fleet. Conversely, the diesel bus alternative consistently ranks lowest due to poor performance on economic and environmental criteria.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825002217Multi-criteria decision analysisStochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)bus fleetsSustainable transportationUncertainty |
| spellingShingle | Jônatas Augusto Manzolli Pascal Messier João Pedro F. Trovão Carlos Henggeler Antunes Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis Sustainable Futures Multi-criteria decision analysis Stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis (SMAA) bus fleets Sustainable transportation Uncertainty |
| title | Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis |
| title_full | Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis |
| title_fullStr | Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis |
| title_short | Decision-making in bus-transit systems: A comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis |
| title_sort | decision making in bus transit systems a comprehensive approach based on stochastic multi criteria acceptability analysis |
| topic | Multi-criteria decision analysis Stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis (SMAA) bus fleets Sustainable transportation Uncertainty |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825002217 |
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